I installed Thunderbird to be my mail preference. I can bring it up and enter the options and password and the pop.earthlink.net and smtpauth.earthlink.net just as I have for all the other distros. When I then try to retrieve messages I get the message that TB failed to connect to server op.earthlink.net. However if I go to the terminal and start TB as root then I can retrieve messages and send email with no problem. I then exited root and started TB as user and got the same message that it failed to connect to server op.earthlink.net. Any ideas on how to get TB to work as user the way it does for all the other distros?

Last edited by rhomp2002 on Thu Jul 10, 2008 3:25, edited 1 time in total.

I put it here because it is an addendum to the installation of Sabayon and seems to be a problem with the installation rather than anything else. If TB can install just tine on all the distros but Sabayon when being installed then it seems as if it is an installation problem to me.

Postby rhomp2002 on Wed Jul 09, 2008 17:17I installed Thunderbird to be my mail preference. I can bring it up and enter the options and password and the pop.earthlink.net and smtpauth.earthlink.net just as I have for all the other distros. When I then try to retrieve messages I get the message that TB failed to connect to server op.earthlink.net. However if I go to the terminal and start TB as root then I can retrieve messages and send email with no problem. I then exited root and started TB as user and got the same message that it failed to connect to server op.earthlink.net. Any ideas on how to get TB to work as user the way it does for all the other distros?

After doing some quick googling - it sounds like it could be profile corrupted.

Go into Thunderbird and create a new profile and see if that works first.

Off the top of my head, maybe a uninstall and reinstall, make sure you wipe out the thunderbird profiles and settings folder too

What version of Sabayon Linux are you running?Did you emerge it or use equo?Was it mozilla-thunderbird or mozilla-thunderbird-bin?If on 64 bit and using emerge try mozilla-thunderbird instead of mozilla-thunderbird-bin

Do you happen to know where the profiles and settings folder is located? I will try the emerge this time and see if that makes a difference and get back to you on that one. In the middle of something right now so it will be a while.

Resolved the problem. My error. I spelled the input server name wrong. i spelled it op.earthlink.net instead of pop.earthlink.net. Looked at it all night and didn't see it. Getting blind in my old age.